Walcot Church House is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1972. Church house. 1 related planning application.
Walcot Church House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-baluster-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1972
- Type
- Church house
- Address
- Walcot Church House, 38, Paragon, BA1 5LY
- OS grid reference
- ST 750 655
- Coordinates
- 51.38843, -2.35966
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walcot Church House is a church house or vicarage built in the early to mid 18th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. The building features a limestone ashlar facade, while the left wing is likely from the 19th century and constructed of rubblestone with freestone dressing. It has a steeply pitched double Roman tile mansard roof with moulded stacks at the coped gable ends.
The structure has a three-unit plan with a left wing and stands two storeys tall, presenting a symmetrical three-window range on the front. It is adorned with a coped parapet, a coved cornice, and a ground floor platband on the front, left side, and rear. Blind windows flank a plate glass sash window at the centre of the first floor, which is topped by a hood on brackets, above a five-panel door. The three-storey rear has some six-over-six pane and plate glass sash windows, along with a 20th-century door at the centre of the lower ground floor. The left return features a hipped slate roof over a two-storey canted wing, which has one horned six-over-six pane sash window on each floor.
The church of St Swithin, associated with this building, has been rebuilt several times, but a church designed by Robert Smith was completed in 1742, suggesting that the church house may date from that period. The building originally had two storeys and three windows, with the outer windows now blocked, and a doorway with a flat hood on brackets.
Local climate
Walcot Church House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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